Mecanoo
Anneline van Eck is a Junior Interior Architect at Mecanoo since September 2023, with previous experience as an Interior Designer at ARRCC Design from July 2021 to August 2022. Anneline held positions as a Junior Interior Architect at M&S Design Studio from January 2021 to July 2021 and at Pattichides & Partners from January 2019 to January 2020. An early role as an Archives Assistant at the University of Pretoria involved sorting and packing library contents for a brief period in June 2017. Prior to pursuing a career in interior architecture, Anneline worked as a Bindery Assistant at Minutemanpress Centurion from June 2010 to January 2017, handling front desk duties and general administration. Anneline completed an Honours in Interior Architecture at the University of Pretoria in 2020 and holds a National Senior Certificate from Die Hoërskool Menlopark, earned in 2014.
Mecanoo
Mecanoo, officially founded in Delft in 1984, is made up of a highly multidisciplinary staff of creative professionals from 25 countries. The team includes architects, interior designers, urban planners, landscape architects as well as architectural technicians and support staff. Mecanoo is led by Francine Houben (Creative Director & Founding Partner), Floris Overheul (Financial Director), Dick van Gameren (Design & Research Partner), and Partners/Architects Nuno Fontarra, Rick Splinter and Arne Lijbers. Mecanoo has extensive experience designing and realising exceptional buildings which serve client ambitions while creating vibrant end-user spaces. Each project responds to our philosophy of People, Place and Purpose: to the client’s requirements and the user’s needs (People); the physical context, climate and culture (Place); and the current and predicted potential of a building’s function (Purpose). The result is unique solutions for each varying situation, in which the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, landscape and interior combine in a non-traditional way. Over the years we have learned that functions inevitably change. Therefore, we must create buildings that are prepared for (un)predictable change. Sustainability is an inherent aspect of our design approach, feeding into an ambition to create new identity in a world of globalization, resulting in inspiring and authentic places, socially relevant for people and communities. Preoccupied not by a focus on form, but on process, consultation, context, urban scale and integrated sustainable design strategies, the practice creates culturally significant buildings with a human touch.